Jacaranda time again

The glorious purple haze of the Jacaranda are once more bursting out with exuberance. Reminding me that it is just a year since I achieved a long-held dream to visit Grafton at Jacaranda festival time.

I did mention the visit just as I shut off for a year. I did say I would post about the experience soon!!!

The world-renowned Jacaranda Festival is held annually in Grafton, Northern Rivers New South Wales, from the last weekend in October to the first weekend in November.

Inaugurated in 1934, this was the first of Australia’s folk festivals and celebrates the magnificent spectacle of the hundreds of lilac-blossomed trees that grow in Grafton’s broad tree lined avenues. Henry Volkers introduced the first Jacaranda trees to Grafton and each year the trees are celebrated, although it has changed over the years to adapt to today’s society, this traditional…

Way-hay, Pauline. You’re back! I’ve been wondering what you were up to. Hope all is well with you and Jack. That is a glorious shot and reminds me of Africa. Many streets in Kenya and Zambia were lined with jacarandas – adrift in blossom as it fell. It think they were planted by the same Brit.

I’m really enjoying being in touch with all my blogging buddies again so it is good to hear from you Tish. I’ll be popping over shortly to see how your garden grows it has been a very good season for growth over here.

Lovely to see your post. Hope your year “away” has been a good one in happiness and health for you both. Still waiting for my jacaranda to show its colours but there are some beauties up here on the Tablelands at the moment. We took Mum to see the beautiful Jacarandas of Grafton, lots of lovely memories of our picnic under the mauve waterfalls. Love to you both, Lyn n David

Yes we think of you often.. Your beautiful drawing of Mischa reminds me of you both on a daily basis. Feline family is good, Sharni struggling a bit at 18+ …extra treats and TLC but she is not ready to leave just yet. Just back from Sri Lanka but flight was out of Cairns not Gold Coast. We would love to catch up and if we are heading South Qld would most certainly spend time with you, so enjoyed those couple of days we did spend. Lots of love to you both. If ever you come North there is always a home for you here, and if ever you fancy a house sit, please think of us.. 😻😻😻😻😻😻😻

The first time I saw a Jacaranda tree was along a tree-lined street in Pretoria, South Africa. The purple color was astonishing on the trees and as they littered the ground. It was simply a beautiful site. Haven’t seen those trees anywhere else since. Glad you brought back that memory. Thanks for this post.

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60 something female, ( now 70 I have been doing this blog 3 years) fit and active, loves travel, reading, walking. Born in Yorkshire, UK. Moved to New Zealand, love the country. Became a "Kiwi" lived there 37 years, son and daughter still live there. Moved to Australia because I now live with and love an Australian that I met in NZ and am now an Aussie citizen.